Editorial
Herminie puts his foot in his mouth yet again!
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM BISHOP OF PORT VICTORIA, DENIS WIEHE ... read more
ATTEMPT TO FIRE BOMB SNP ACTIVIST
While President Michel was in La Reunion Cyclone Bondo came knocking.
New graduates from the National Institute of Health and Social Studies (NIHSS)
President James Michel in La Reunion searching for more investors
The Seychelles Tourism Board and operators were meeting in earnest over the past week to devise a marketing strategy to attract more tourists to our shores next year. Perhaps they should take leaf out of the books of an intrepid marketing company in California. This company has decided that the name Seychelles can sell shoes to the ladies of America as a brand name. ... read more
SEYCHELLES: A BRAND NAME THAT SELLS WOMEN’S SHOES
Who is Agnelle Francourt and why did she escape from police custody?
Agnelle Francourt is a 26 year old girl who used to work for Air Seychelles as an Air Stewardess. She was arrested earlier this year by the police and charged with drug related offences. The police claimed that she escaped from custody in April this year at English River Clinic after she had requested permission to go to the toilet. ... read more
As the Curtain Falls...
This issue is our last for the year, in just nine days the curtain will fall on 2006. What an eventful twelve months it has been. The election of President Michel should have been a milestone for local politics; unfortunately it was overshadowed by events of the 3rd of October. ... read more
In his usual thuggish style Herminie went on the attack in the NationalAssembly immediately after the Minister of Finance, Mr. Danny Faure has delivered his inaugural budget address. After Herminie was unleashed by the speaker of the National Assembly, who allowed his intervention after the Leader of the Opposition had exercised his right of reply, Herminie immediately went on the attack. ... read more
The Adam Quadruplets:
A VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS STORY
The first thing that struck us when we approached the Adam household at Mont Fleuri was the deafening silence. It was certainly not what one was expecting to find at the home of Seychelles’ first quadruplets in over 53 years. ... read more
The Minister of Finance Mr Danny Faure left Seychelles earlier this week to go Singapore accompanied by his wife and children. In all the Faure party occupied 6 business class seats on Air Seychelles, according to a passenger who was also in the same compartment of the aircraft. ... read more
MINISTER OF FINANCE TOO GOES TO SINGAPORE ON HOLIDAY WITH HIS FAMILY
A device which exploded under a vehicle last Sunday night, has been described as a politically motivated attempt at firebombing his vehicle by the owner, Mr Joe Sullivan. Mr Sullivan is a well know activist of the Seychelles National Party (SNP) and drives around at all times flying the colours of his party on his vehicles. ... read more
Remembering Christmas past: Christmas – 1977
One of the ways in which the coup d’etat of 1977 changed our way of life was in the celebration of Christmas. Until 1977 Christmas would not be Christmas without the midnight mass. And midnight mass must be held – well at midnight. ... read more
LNSW continues with the serialization of the Trial of Guy Pool who was accused of exploding a bomb at the Reef Hotel in 1972. ... read more
Images Of The Week
Down Memory Lane - The Guy Pool Trial continues ...
Volume 5 . Issue No. 45 . Weekend December 22, 2006
NEWS BRIEF
Copyright 2006: Seychelles Weekly, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles
Dec 29, 2006 - New tropical depression east of Farquar and traveling southwest at 7 km/h could develop into a major storm.
